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Powering Resilience with Critical Event Management

everbridge

As our world becomes increasingly uncertain, to succeed, organisations need to build resilience so that they can anticipate and avoid threats, respond effectively when necessary, and learn from their experiences to improve their next response. PwC further argues that organisational resilience is critical — not just to succeed, but to survive.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. The framework changed with the Budget Control Act in 2011, which led to the emergence of a more focused and proactive funding model from 2012-2020, and a lessened reliance on reactive supplemental appropriations.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

Business Continuity as part of an overall Operational Resilience program is the mitigation of risk. A modern 24/7 business cannot tolerate interruption and therefore looks for its resilience teams to prepare for the high risk scenarios which could occur. This allows them to proactively develop pragmatic strategies to mitigate the risk.